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The wonders of English spelling
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I've seen enough French spelling to get it, though, and I don't really speak French. English spelling is still often hard as a native speaker.
You guys can have second place, our system is the most ass "bar none".
Our system needs a deep reform; yours needs to burn to the ground and fully rebuild.
Uh oh, the internet is starting the Napoleonic Wars 2: Electric Waterloo.
Okay English is weird but y'all got nothing on Japanese. I mean what the hell is this?
Multiple systems of writing at once is terrible in a different way, yes. I hear they still have page rendering issues in 2025.
I was more talking about the number of readings for one character but yeah that too.